I cringe every time a home seller and home buyer make contact with each other. While on the surface it may seem like a good idea, it is actually fraught with issues. Simply put home sellers should avoid talking to home buyers directly to avoid misunderstandings and future liability. You hired an agent let them do their job. Home sellers I know you are just trying to help. And, I know you want to get your house sold, but you talk too much!! As a matter of fact, this … Continue reading...

When listing a home much of the success lies with the real estate agent you choose. Avoid the top mistakes when hiring a listing agent to list and sell your home. Hire the right listing agent and things will go relatively smoothly, but hire the wrong listing agent and you will end up disappointed in the end. Take the time to interview several agents so you have a full understanding of what is ahead of you. You will be in a contract with your listing agent for a period of time which … Continue reading...

The whole point to putting your home on the market is to sell it! Getting an offer is one of the first steps of getting your home sold. Sometimes just the right offer comes in and it is exactly what you want other times you need to carefully assess and negotiate an offer into something you can accept. If you hired an experienced listing agent, their services will be invaluable when it comes time to assess and negotiate an offer. Your experienced, full time agent spends part … Continue reading...

I proposed "What Every Listing Agent Wished Their Sellers Knew".... well I received some great responses from some very competent listing agents across the country. For some sellers listing a home may seem like a mystery. But these agents know what they are doing.... from helping you prepare your home, pricing properly for the market and presenting it to the public, these top listing agents have the experience and know how to help you.
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Every home seller has high hopes their home will sell immediately and that there home is priced just right. Unfortunately for some home sellers that is not always the case and they will be faced with reducing the price of their home if they truly want to sell it. You will be left asking how much of a price reduction should I have on my home. Pricing your home right from the start is ultra critical yet it doesn't always happen. Sometimes determining the fair market value of … Continue reading...

As a home shopper, there are a few things you can do to make your life easier…and that is to make your agent’s job easier. You two have aligned goals, so it is best to work with each other instead of against each other. I have observed both sides of the transaction enough times to know a few of the items consumers can do to help their REALTOR®. Here is that list.
Be Upfront and Communicative
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Does Going Directly to The Listing Agent Save Money?
Some home buyers think that if they go to an open house or call the listing agent directly on a home they will save money. The thought is if they go directly to the listing agent they will receive an edge in negotiations and/or the listing agent will give up part of their commission to make the deal work. So will going directly to the listing agent save you money? In reality, yes you may have the illusion of saving money upfront on the … Continue reading...

I went on a listing appointment the other evening. I know I shouldn't be shocked, but I was. I spent two to three hours researching and going over pricing on the property the homeowners were looking to sell. My research included a few drive by's of home that sold in the past 6 months. Two very good comparable properties were on similar parallel streets to the house I was researching. There was one flaw to this property which was high tension wires ran thru the … Continue reading...

Market With Drone Photography and Videos
My business partner and I invested a bunch of money and time into purchasing a high quality drone, receiving our remote pilots license and learning to fly a drone. We wanted to provide drone services for marketing our home sellers home. For us, we wanted to bring it drone services in house so we could provide drone photography and drone videography to every home seller where it might seem like a good fit. Because we own the equipment and … Continue reading...

Today I wanted to discuss a common trap I see sellers sometimes get stuck in when they have a house to sell. This phenomenon happens quite a bit, rarely with good results for the home seller. While I have no real explanation of why, it happens quite a bit on estate properties. I run into this several times a year and in the past 14 years it has only worked out twice favorably for the home seller. In all the other cases, it has cost the seller lost time and probably even in some cases, lost … Continue reading...